practice. To adjudicate this issue, we examine the expansion of the USPTO Patent and Trademark Depository Library system …) disclosed in patent documents. We find that after a patent library opens, local patenting increases by 17% relative to control … significant and of important magnitude among young companies, library opening induces local inventors to cite more geographically …

the expansion of the USPTO Patent Library system after 1975. Before the Internet, patent libraries gave inventors access … to patent documents. We find that after patent library opening, local patenting increases by 17% relative to control …

practice. To adjudicate this issue, we examine the expansion of the USPTO Patent and Trademark Depository Library system …) disclosed in patent documents. We find that after a patent library opens, local patenting increases by 17% relative to control … significant and of important magnitude among young companies, library opening induces local inventors to cite more geographically …